Linked by Sean Cohen on Tue 13th Apr 2004 06:52 UTC
Today I'm going to talk about why software - any software, all software - actually matters, what the different types of software are, and why you should care about its properties (no matter who you are, or what you do).
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"is there a program for Linux which does "batch conversion" from MP3 to Ogg?"
Yes. You can decode a MP3 to WAV and then encode that to OGG. You could even write a script for that. You could use XMMS Disk Writer, LAME, etc and for OGG encoding OGG Encoder. A script which does this automagically is mp32ogg. It makes use of Perl.
However converting one lossy format to one other means a quality loss. You won't get lost data back either. Thereofore i rather suggest you rerip your CD's directly to OGG, with a bitrate depending on how much you play the CD, how much diskspace you have, etc. VBR is also good, the only huge disadvantage is that it can't be used for streaming.
"Does Ogg support ID3 tags?"
Something like that yes, but better (ID3v1 isn't very powerful). To edit these, you can use XMMS, TagEdit, Prokyon3.
MP3 might be an open standard, but the standard isn't worldwide Free because of patents. Many people simply do not know this, which is unfortunate.